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Is there gold in your old intellectual property?

Berkonomics

Digging through your IP closet for gold…. The Internet was young back when the patent was first filed by the Company, and their patented product allowed a visitor to dial into a computer (does anyone remember dial-up electronic bulletin boards?)

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

Your product demo crushed. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. But the real product being bought or sold is “trust.” You had an amazing meeting with an investor.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

To address the need for more affordable webinars, services like DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com earlier this month), and Huntington Beach-based Freebinar (www.freebinar.com) have been offering up free webinar products to users. It's to help us grow quickly and to bring this product to the huge, small business market.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

InfoChachkie

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. In the summer of 1999, Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) released a free service called BuddyHelp.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

That users get the PIN code, enters it into the registration screen, and if they typed in the right code, they can complete registration and get access to all of what a service provider gives them. One was for our PhoneID product, which is extremely important to us. We take that number, and send them a one-time PIN code.

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Will Wearable Tech Ever Replace the Phone?

Tech Zulu Event

Thanks to technology they can use IP camera hosting to have their systems all set up using cloud computing, and then activate them from their personal watches. Screen space is valued for the utility it provides in browsing the internet, interacting with apps, managing photos, and more. But would customers necessarily want this?